Lisa Doi, Ph.D.

Lisa Doi, Ph.D., is an assistant curator and project manager at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, where she leads a multi-year effort to redevelop the museum’s permanent exhibition documenting the history of the Japanese American community from 1860 to the present. She recently completed a Ph.D. in American Studies at Indiana University, with a dissertation examining how Japanese American communities have memorialized wartime incarceration. Doi also serves as a board member and past president of both the Chicago Japanese American Citizens League and Tsuru for Solidarity, two Japanese American civil rights organizations.

Doi is a North Shore Country Day School alumna (’09) and trustee.